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It had a nice architecture for an 8 bit machine, though. You could add a ton of RAM even to an MSX1. And you could get 80 columns cards too. The first MSX was
by forinti 3y ago
It had a nice architecture for an 8 bit machine, though. You could add a ton of RAM even to an MSX1. And you could get 80 columns cards too.
The first MSX was sold in 1983. It couldn't realistically have been made much earlier. You must take into account that the 80s had an explosion of technology. As soon as something hit the market, it was already superseded by something better.
- buescher 3y agoThe Colecovision, which is similar, came out a year earlier. The Z80 (1976) and the TI graphics chip (1979) were old news by that point. I could almost imagine an MSX standard a year earlier, with a fast Z80 (i.e. the 8 MHz Z80H, 1982) and an iteration on the TMS9918.